The Euphemistic Silhouette

 The Euphemistic Silhouette

Daiemah Malik delineates the proceedings of the International Law Commission

In a bid to try the foundation of all trials, the delegates venture to find loopholes and analyze current legal provisions of incitement to genocide with special focus to Article 25 (3) (e) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The delegates make attempts to unveil the euphemistic silhouette the perpetrators of Genocides often use to cover up their sins as incitement is often said to be the best predictor of genocide.

The committee describes that incitement to genocide must be made strictly liable and direct or indirect ‘soundtracks to genocide’ should be made a separate crime. “The Rome Statute is so flawed that it doesn’t even cover all crimes……..How do you prove a Causal link between violence that has not yet occurred?”, questions the delegate of United States Of America and highlights the flawed and vague nature of the Rome statute. 

The delegate further describes how the treatment of incitement as an inchoate crime makes it difficult to punish the perpetrators and thus, elaborates his plea against the Rome Statute. This gives rise to yet another war of words . “Proving all crimes is difficult, but law is supreme and should be codified and abided by” states another esteemed delegate and the committee further adds that it realizes the Rome statue has to be updated and not completely scrapped off.

 The committee also recognizes the metaphorical and euphemistic nature of incitement and focuses on elevating the stature of incitement to a separate crime in order to prevent the perpetrators from reducing the existence of others and causing mental and psychological harm to the minority. 

The International Press hopes that alterations to the Rome statute will be made and individuals will be held liable for the prejudicism their euphemisms hold that reduce the outgroup’s existence to only half a human. 

Although, decoding euphemisms and establishing causal links between hate speech and incitement is a very difficult task to prosecute, amendments have to be made because people are not mere statistics and numbers and the world cannot witness another trauma like the Holocaust and Rwandan Genocide. The International  Press believes the International Law Commission will overcome this hurdle and not let hate in speech that takes lives take the pass of mere hate speech.

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